Strike! What time will it start?

depends on the union but most start between 5 and 7am for the actual walkouts. the issue is more that some workers will start their shift earlier and just not show up, so busses and trains might be disappearing from the schedule as early as 4am. if it were me i'd leave at 3:30 just to have a buffer. the taxi drivers themselves won't be striking so that part should be fine, but the roads around txls and ber will be a mess from everyone else who had the same idea

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Check what kind of strike it is. If it's a warning strike by ver.di for airport staff, those usually kick off at the start of the early shift around 4am. But if it's a full-day strike announced in advance, disruptions can start as early as 3am when the night shift ends. Since you're taking a taxi and not relying on the S-Bahn, you have a bit more control. I'd still leave by 3am from central Berlin, because if the strike affects ground handling, check-in counters might open late and you'll want that extra buffer for the queue at BER.

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It depends on whether your flight is from Tegel or BER. If it's Tegel, the strike starts at 5am so a 4am taxi is fine, but if it's BER the whole area gets backed up even for taxis when public transport is disrupted. I'd leave at 3am regardless, worst case you get an extra hour of airport pretzels and coffee. The S-Bahn around BER might already be running reduced service by 4am, which means more cars on the roads.

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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